Hello Mrs Slyder - always nice for someone to convert from lurking to joining!
How you all doing? Is your stomach better Grubbster?
Greenslw - well my DH def wants a boy (he's so old school, and is already thinking of the teenage years) so I suppose I want a girl just to be... well even I suppose. Or stubborn : ) But like all of us, I suppose I really don't care at all as long as it's healthy and 'normal' and mine.
I just got a call from my obstetrician’s office. They’ve been advised that Medicare will be significantly reducing their rebate towards Obstetrician Planning & Management fees as of 1st Jan 2010. So if you are going private, and will be 20+ weeks by 31st Dec, it might be worth contacting your OB’s office to see if you can pay early. But you have to be a minimum of 20 weeks to pay & qualify.
Our example:
Our Ob’s fee is $2000. Because we are over the Medicare Safety Net we qualify to get $1600 back if we pay by 31st Dec. If we were to wait til 1st Jan, we would only receive $460 back. That’s a huge difference!
I’m not sure of exact figures but it is a similar story if you are under the Safety Net threshold.
Hope this helps some of you! Spread the word to any preggy friends too!
Hi BOC - thanks - must take you ages! I'm due July 16th. I'm calling him/her flutterbug at the moment based on the scan.
A question for you all - I often get cramped muscles (long story involving an accident with a donkey in Egypt - I'll tell you one rainy day!) - particularly in the top of my bottom/ bottom of my back. For years, I've had really really strong, deep massages and they help so much. Do you think it's ok to get one now? My bottom (round my pelvis) is cramping so badly my leg is twitching almost. Or should I ask my GP? I don't have an obstet. yet, just an FS who I doubt knows... or am I underestimating him. Or maybe a nurse? what do you think?
Oh, the masseuse is pregnancy trained, she's 'proper'.
LM, so sorry to laugh, don't mean anything nasty by it but I have a very sick twisted mind and you can imagine the images conjured up in my brain in regards to and accident involving a donkey in Egypt leaving you with a sore bottom region... sorry but my dirty mind went haywire LOL.
I will update you on the list.
In regards to the massage, I have a friend that is a masseuse, and she told me it's not a good idea to have a massage til at least 12 weeks just in case, especially if it is a "delicate" pregnancy situation as throughout the massage you are releasing and moving toxins around your body. She said some masseurs will still do them, but she refuses just in case, she would hate to cause any problems. Hope that helps.
MRS SLYDER,how wonderful to see you here hun i truely hope the rest of your pregnancy is smooth sailing with your little twins.
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LM, so sorry to laugh, don't mean anything nasty by it but I have a very sick twisted mind and you can imagine the images conjured up in my brain in regards to and accident involving a donkey in Egypt leaving you with a sore bottom region... sorry but my dirty mind went haywire LOL.
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